Sioux Dog Dance: Shunk Ah Weh

This is such a strong book, written in a strong plain style. Red Hawk is like Whitman because he can contain multitudes and yet he is always so authentically himself. Behind all these [poems] there is always one single simple thing which is Red Hawk's own voice. Haunting and stark, ironic and spare. "These poems are desperately important to us all today because Red Hawk has that rarest of all virtues - a sense of civilization, something most of us have forgotten all about. Behind each of these miraculously crafted poems, Red _ Hawk speaks of the wise silence and the raw courage -J51) and the animal honesty and the elemental pride we will all be needing if we are to survive on this god-forsaken planet as free men and women." -William Packard, editor, New York Quarterly